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nder new management! In January of 2009 the ownership and management of Discovering Lewis & Clark® was officially transferred from VIAs Inc. to the Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation of Washburn, North Dakota. Our intention is not only to preserve and maintain the site produced by Joseph Mussulman since 1998, but also to undertake a series of new initiatives and historical investigations, and to introduce emerging technologies at appropriate times, in pursuit of our mission to make this the most comprehensive and useful Lewis and Clark website on the Internet.
We welcome serious suggestions, comments and queries from our readers via the "Contact" utility at left, above. We are eager to receive proposals for articles, photo essays, and other contributions to Discovering Lewis & Clark®. More about the Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation will be found on the Credits page, listed above at left.
David Borlaug, President,
Fort Mandan Foundation
Wendy Spencer, Vice President,
Fort Mandan Foundation
Clay Jenkinson, Editor & Director
Stephenie Ambrose-Tubbs, Assoc. Editor
Joseph Mussulman, Assistant Editor
New in April, 2010
he new Dakota Institute Press announces its first publication, historian David Nicandri's River of Promise: Lewis and Clark on the Columbia. The producers of Discovering Lewis & Clark® -- The Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation -- here present a reprint of a sample chapter, plus an excerpt from Clay Jenkinson's Foreword to Nicandri's remarkable book, and a convenient link to the Foundation's Cottonwood Gift Shop.
Page three of the old episode on the upland bird Lewis dubbed the "Cock of the Plains" (Centrocercus urophasianus) has been updated with a new conclusion, "Sage Grouse in 2010."
In the short page featuring a photo of a beaver plew,, the definition of parchment has been clarified.
The article featuring Jim Wark's aerial photo of the UL Bend of the Missouri has been corrected and somewhat expanded.
Recent Additions
lay Jenkinson, the new editor and director of Discovering Lewis & Clark®, is the author of the most recent featured addition to the site, Six Metaphors in Search of an Epic, in five parts: "Dubious Legacies," "Corn Mills and Canadians," "Markets and Mandans," "Two Views of Warfare," and "Six Metaphors for the Legacy."
Direct links to the successive parts of Clay's essay, as well as links to minor corrections and updates to other pages in Discovering Lewis & Clark® will be found at the "RSS News" button near the bottom of the Discovery Paths menu at left.
Soon to come
ome answers to those "Lingering Questions" about the design and navigation of dugout canoes, by William W. Bevis, scholar, author and veteran canoeist.
One more page will be added to Robert Bergantino's series of essays on Lewis and Clark's exercises in Celestial Navigation
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nder new management! In January of 2009 the ownership and management of Discovering Lewis & Clark® was officially transferred from VIAs Inc. to the 
he new Dakota Institute Press announces its first publication, historian David Nicandri's 
lay Jenkinson, the new editor and director of Discovering Lewis & Clark®, is the author of the most recent featured addition to the site, 
ome answers to those "Lingering Questions" about the design and navigation of